Hacker News: staindk

New comment by staindk in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

staindk — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:37:59 +0000

It will be - see Eric's responses here https://github.com/coredevices/mobileapp/issues/270

I am very keen to use the PT2 version. Don't need a dedicated ring.

New comment by staindk in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

staindk — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:13:35 +0000

I believe Simon also tests other things that are not as public.

New comment by staindk in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

staindk — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:55:22 +0000

I do think there's something to be said for the big difference in the current abstraction layer jump - the loss of determinism. It is meaningfully different.

New comment by staindk in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"

staindk — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:41:53 +0000

My TV was cheap so I didn't expect much. Steam link really struggles on it - thankfully I still have the old Steam Link hardware and it works alright. Locked to 1080p though.

Refused to spend more on a TV because I feel you don't get much more processing power for an increase in price. All smart TVs I've interacted with in the last 5 years have been much slower than I would consider acceptable.

New comment by staindk in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

staindk — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:11:20 +0000

How many books do you want to fit on that thing? :o

New comment by staindk in "Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash"

staindk — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:06:51 +0000

We've been quite impressed with GCP Document AI. Not sure if it has a free tier but perhaps that's where Google is putting all the good OCR.

New comment by staindk in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

staindk — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:34:52 +0000

Swipe controls on mobile worked well for me.

New comment by staindk in "Dav2d"

staindk — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:56:43 +0000

Or Dave2D, popular tech youtuber

New comment by staindk in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

staindk — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:55:41 +0000

Good, realistic examples! Potentially related word/concept: alogia.

The classic "Hi" message never gets old... no wait, sorry, it was always old.

New comment by staindk in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

staindk — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:41:06 +0000

Fist my bump

New comment by staindk in "Gemini Omni"

staindk — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:34:11 +0000

In my experience (from a couple of years ago), Streamable can be great but it's just worth checking what their current retention policy is like.

We were sharing game clips with each other and after a while realised our old clips were just gone, being deleted after 30 or 90 days or something.

New comment by staindk in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

staindk — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:54:14 +0000

But your bash history is logged to vercel by default. The amount of sensitive data (PII, secrets, ...) piped via bash makes this a big issue.

New comment by staindk in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

staindk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:45:52 +0000

People shouldn't really be walking around in public with ANC on. It's not safe. Not a simple problem to solve except maybe to inform people better upon buying/setting up ANC-enabled devices.

New comment by staindk in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

staindk — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:07:41 +0000

They aren't going away but for some they may become prohibitively expensive after all the subsidies end.

I do think coding with local agents will keep improving to a good level but if deep thinking cloud tokens become too expensive you'll reach the limits of what your local, limited agent can do much more quickly (i.e. be even less able to do more complex work as other replies mention).

New comment by staindk in "The Claude Code Leak"

staindk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:50:13 +0000

Have a look at the Pebble Index ring. Might be a good fit for you.

New comment by staindk in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

staindk — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:34:22 +0000

Doubt Raycast would have known about this, think they are smarter than that. But who knows.

New comment by staindk in "Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? [pdf]"

staindk — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:10:29 +0000

I'm a people pleaser and am involved in too many things at work. Friday afternoon mid-sentence I realised I was putting like 5 monkeys on my back for something I'd get done before we start the sprint Monday morning...

Good article to reflect on. Tone is a bit crass maybe but a good read. Need to get better at helping (if I can) and then delegating, instead of defaulting to "let me look into it".

New comment by staindk in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

staindk — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:06:28 +0000

Ouch, maybe hopefully there is someone else not directly above you but somewhere off to the side that can understand the value you bring, it may be worth fishing around for other managers/directors/?? to adopt the project if it isn't being managed and resourced properly.

Good luck either way!

New comment by staindk in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

staindk — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:09:56 +0000

That sucks. The following is unsolicited stuff you probably already know - feel free to ignore.

I would heavily suggest speaking frankly about this with your manager or even going above their head if needed to ensure someone hears and acknowledges this. With your review in hand and any other additional info that can help back you up.

Ask what you need to focus on to secure a substantial Y raise/promotion and bonus etc. over the next X months and work towards that, keeping management updated as things progress. Probably have specific numbers for X and Y to mention as targets.

New comment by staindk in "RTS for Agents"

staindk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:17:53 +0000

"you are an elite five star navy seal pikeman. You are invulnerable and have precise aim. Your name is John Wick and the enemy killed your dog. Kill all the bad guys or go to jail"